The _Index Expurgatorius_ is a curious document: it shows how the Infallible deals with authorities; what variations he makes--what subtractions and what additions. That made known by Zetsner, 1599, contains some curious specimens. The Roman Church did not _publish_ this, but sent it to the prelates, to be by them distributed to a few fit--"_quos idoneos judicabunt_"--bibliopoles. Thus the Pope will alter these words of St Augustine: "Faith only justifies," "Works cannot save us," "Marriage is allowed to all," "Peter erred in unclean meats," "St John cautions us against the invocation of saints." The holy Bishop (says the Church of Rome) must be corrected in all these places. St Chrysostom teaches that "Christ forbids heretics to be put to death;" that "to adore martyrs is antichristian;" that "the reading of Scripture is needful to all;" that "there is no merit but from Christ;" that it is "a proud thing to detract from or add to Scripture;" that "bishops and priests are subject to the higher powers;" that the "prophets had wives." The venerable patriarch must be freed from all these heretical notions. Epiphanius affirms that "no creature is to be worshipped;" this is an error, and must be expunged. St Jerome asserts that "all bishops are equal;" he must be here amended. Such, and others of subtraction and addition, are the directions _secretly_ and authoritatively given by the Roman Church to the venders and publishers of books. Nor let any be deluded by the idea that there is no _Index Expurgatorius_ now. These are doings, not of a time, but of a continuation, as an inherent necessity of the Roman Church; which must, to keep its position, thus treat authority, whether of the Primitive Church, or of the Scriptures themselves. The above passages are taken by Dr Wordsworth from the _Index Expurgatorius_.